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1 descend
[di'send]1) (to go or climb down from a higher place or position: He descended the staircase.) spustiti se2) (to slope downwards: The hills descend to the sea.) spuščati se3) ((with on) to make a sudden attack on: The soldiers descended on the helpless villagers.) planiti•- descent
- be descended from* * *[disénd]1.intransitive verbspustiti, spuščati se, navzdol iti, sestopiti, padati; izhajati, biti po rodu; biti nagnjen; ( upon) planiti, navaliti; podedovati; ponižati se; figuratively nepričakovano obiskati; astronomy proti jugu se pomikati (zvezde);2.transitive verbspuščati seto be descended from — izvirati, izhajati, biti po rodu izto descend to s.o. — dobiti kot dediščinoto descend (up)on s.o. — nepričakovano koga napasti -
2 downhill
1) (down a slope: The road goes downhill all the way from our house to yours.) navzdol2) (towards a worse and worse state: We expected him to die, I suppose, because he's been going steadily downhill for months.) vedno slabše* * *I [dáunhil]adverbnavzdol; figuratively vedno slabšeII [dáunhil]adjectivenavzdolnji -
3 grade
[ɡreid] 1. noun1) (one level in a scale of qualities, sizes etc: several grades of sandpaper; a high-grade ore.) stopnja (kakovosti)2) ((American) (the pupils in) a class or year at school: We're in the fifth grade now.) razred3) (a mark for, or level in, an examination etc: He always got good grades at school.) ocena4) ((especially American) the slope of a railway etc; gradient.) nagnjenost2. verb1) (to sort into grades: to grade eggs.) razvrstiti2) (to move through different stages: Red grades into purple as blue is added.) prehajati•- grader
- grade school
- make the grade* * *I [greid]nounstopnja; vrsta; ocena; žival, ki ima enega roditelja čiste rase; nagnjenost, pobočje, strmina; American razred, plural osnovna šolaAmerican grade school — osnovna šolaAmerican slang grade grabber — stremuhAmerican grade crossing, crossing at grade — križišče ceste in železnice v isti višiniAmerican grade teacher — učitelj(ica) osnovne šoleto be on the up-grade — napredovati, dvigati seII [greid]transitive verbrazvrstiti, razvrščati, po stopnjah urediti, sortirati, izravna(va)ti, splanirati, oceniti, ocenjevatito grade up — križati z boljšo pasmo, oplemenititito grade up with s.o., s.th. — dati se primerjati s kom, čim -
4 hill
[hil]1) (noun a piece of high land, smaller than a mountain: We went for a walk in the hills yesterday.) hrib2) (a slope on a road: This car has difficulty going up steep hills.) vzpon•- hillock- hilly
- hillside* * *I [hil]noungrič, hrib, hribčekfiguratively over the hill — čez najhujše (se prebiti)American colloquially not worth a hill of beans — še počenega groša ni vrednoII [hil]transitive verbnakopičiti, napraviti hribčke -
5 mountain-side
noun (the slope of a mountain: The avalanche swept the climbers down the mountain-side.) pobočje
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